Iowa Code 455H.105 – Duties of the commission
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The commission shall do all of the following:
1. Adopt rules pertaining to the assessment, evaluation, and cleanup of the presence of hazardous substances which allow participants to carry out response actions using background standards, statewide standards, or site-specific cleanup standards pursuant to this chapter.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 455H.105
- Certificate: means a certificate of title. See Iowa Code 462A.2
- Commission: means the environmental protection commission created under section 455A. See Iowa Code 455H.103
- Department: means the department of natural resources created under section 455A. See Iowa Code 455H.103
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Participant: means any person who enrolls property pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 455H.103
- Release: means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment of a hazardous substance, including the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles containing any hazardous substance, but excludes all of the following:a. See Iowa Code 455H.103
- Use: means to operate, navigate, or employ a vessel. See Iowa Code 462A.2
2. Adopt rules establishing statewide standards and criteria for determination of background standards and site-specific cleanup standards.3. Adopt rules establishing a program intended to encourage and enhance assessment, evaluation, and cleanup of sites which may have been the site of or affected by a release.4. Adopt rules establishing a program to administer the land recycling fund established in section 455H.401.5. Adopt rules establishing requirements for the submission, performance, and verification of site assessments, cleanup plans, and certifications of completion. The rules shall provide that all site assessments, cleanup plans, and certifications of completion submitted by a participant shall be prepared by or under the supervision of an appropriately trained professional, including a groundwater professional certified pursuant to section 455B.474.6. Adopt rules for public notice of the proposed verification of a certificate of completion by the department where the certificate of completion is conditioned on the use of an institutional or technological control.